A parliamentery committee found that not a single SC/ST teaching faculty or non-teaching stuff were sent for foreign training in the last three years.
BJP MP and chairman of the parliament’s committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Faggan Singh Kulaste has slammed the JNU for ‘caste discrimination’.
He was quoted saying by IANS, in Times of India's report: “As a committee, most of us, if not all, were surprised with the complaints from teaching staff, others and students that caste discrimination continues in the premier university. We are deeply pained that the education system here is functioning on the exclusion of caste.”
He claimed that 30-member panel — 20 from Lok Sabha and 20 from Rajya Sabha — were surprised to find that not a single SC/ST teaching faculty and non-teaching staff were sent for foreign training in the last three years.
The panel which consisted of D Raja (CPI), Kariya Munda (BJP), Ramdas Athawale (RPI), Santokh Singh Chaudhary (Congress) and Pratima Mondal (Trinamool Congress) believed that an evaluation system must be put in place to plug the dropout rates of SC/ST students.
Kulaste added that the situation had nothing to do with the JNU controversy, and the committee had visited the university campus on August 21, 2015.
He further added: “The study was made on the role of educational institutions, including universities, technical, medical and engineering, in socio-economic development of the SCs and STs and implementation of reservation policy in JNU".
He said the committee will also visit other universities including Aligarh Muslim University and University of Hyderabad but the dates for those visits haven’t been finalised yet.
"Often they (JNU officials) told us either the SC-ST candidates do not apply or do not fulfill the essential criteria. These were just excuses and the committee was not convinced. We work in consensus. The best part of our panel is to work as a team to help out our own communities, as members of this committee are derived from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes alone," he said adding his party affiliations didn’t affect his work.
However, the lawmaker from Mandla constituency in Madhya Pradesh said: "With the ongoing process of recruitment and positive responses, it is expected that at least 80 percent of the total reserved posts will be filled in next 10-12 months." But as an individual MP, who has been in parliament since 1996, Kulaste said: "Only reservation policy is not enough to annihilate the hydra-headed monster of caste. Therefore, we have recommended that proper training and civic education to both teachers and students are provided to enhance the skill and competence level of the students."
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